The 30-year-old superstar tells People, “That was crazy. It wasn’t hurtful, it was just crazy. [I thought] ‘Where did they come up with this?”

But apparently it was her mother, Tina Knowles, who was hurt the most by the consistent rumors of a faked pregnancy and surrogacy. Her mother told People, “I thought it was very unfair and very cruel that someone would think that someone would be that diabolical to keep up a charade like that for nine months. As a mother it was painful for me to hear the crazy rumors. And I even had people ask me, which was so ridiculous.”

And what about the infamous incident on Australian TV where people swore up and down that the baby was a prosthetic which “collapsed” when Beyonce sat down? “It was a fabric that folded — does fabric not fold?”, she told the magazine. ” Oh my gosh, so stupid.”